Nocturnalia
Above Below Within
Gaphals
2015
Nocturnalia is a Swedish quintet, with particular tastes… no I dunno about their persuasion and nor do I care and I doubt, they dress up like a mr. Grey. Their particular tastes have to do with their musical style, which is psychedelic rock, with a modern slant.
It takes quite some nerve to open an album with a two plus minute piano intro “Vandringen” to then only break into some bizarre sounding rock with a singer who sounds like the bastard between Edwyn Collins and Ozzy Osbourne… “Within His Lies” I suppose parallels with Wolfmother or like Swedish acts like Graveyard or Witchcraft to a lesser degree, on other songs like “Lady of the Woods” or “The Stone” could be drawn, but then to each his own. The largely acoustic, seventh and final song on the album “Towards the End” seems to be making it an ideal epilogue, to this bizarre little piece of work… that might appeal to a very specific audience. An acquired taste then...
It takes quite some nerve to open an album with a two plus minute piano intro “Vandringen” to then only break into some bizarre sounding rock with a singer who sounds like the bastard between Edwyn Collins and Ozzy Osbourne… “Within His Lies” I suppose parallels with Wolfmother or like Swedish acts like Graveyard or Witchcraft to a lesser degree, on other songs like “Lady of the Woods” or “The Stone” could be drawn, but then to each his own. The largely acoustic, seventh and final song on the album “Towards the End” seems to be making it an ideal epilogue, to this bizarre little piece of work… that might appeal to a very specific audience. An acquired taste then...